Hi,
I have a audio system with integrated carkit (Renault) with Bluetooth support and a USB connector.
The HD2 connects via Bluetooth, but I usually use the USB port so the phone will be charged during driving.
However, when the USB port is used, I can only select 'Fast disk access' because the carkit doesn't run ActiveSync.
At that point, I cannot access the storage card anymore, where all my music is stored, and that's the problem because I would like to use my phone as an MP3 player.
Is there a way to use the USB port and still make the music on the storage card available on my audio system?
Any suggestions appreciated,
M.
HD2 on BMW 3 series USB port
My HD2 is working with BMW 3 series USB port. I can see the SD card and play music, but I cannot connect the HD2 to the bluetooth.
(My HTC Diamond was not working either, but all my old SE phones were fine.)
Okay so I'm starting to get fed up with this phone and my head unit...
My head unit (there are no settings to change this) automatically defaults to the USB connection, when a USB device has been plugged in (in this case my cell phone to charge)
I use Bluetooth audio streaming so I have to constantly switch back to bluetooth mode which really isn't a big deal...there's just a couple problems
If I do NOT mount the cell phone for SD card access...my head unit will constantly try to read it, and after about 20 seconds, it will reset the connection with the phone...and I will end up back on USB mode on the headunit
To solve this I am using Auto-mount...
BUT if I use auto-mount, then my cached stations on Slacker aren't available...and so I have to turn off USB storage... (If USB storage is turned on and THEN off...the headunit will not default to USB again...it will leave the connection alone)
You can imagine my frustration when getting in and out of the car
Seems to me the simplest way to fix this would be to disable the USB data portion all together based on what my cell phone is connected to.
ex. If I plug the phone to my computer, I get USB storage
If I plug the phone to my headunit, it will only charge the phone
IS there a way to do that???
You could find a USB cable that only has the power wires (one came with a bluetooth headset I bought), make your own cable (cut the data line), or use something like the iPhone USB Charging Adapter ThinkGeek sells (I do not know if it would stop the car from seeing the phone)
yesterday i succeeded with connecting the gnote to my car stereo via usb,
using the following instructions
usb debugging mode off
while Idle then I go to usb utilities and press connect to storage pc
then I connect the usb cable
yesterday it worked fine, although i was bummed it did not read the music on the external sd card, just the music that is stored on the 16 Gb built in sd card, what a bummer.
BUT today i could not connect it and my car stereo gave me usb N/A
i tired to connect my experia play and my iphone and both worked and connected immediately via usb to my car stereo withut any hassles, by the way I faced the same problem with Galaxy S2.
what is wrong here, and why only do i face that with the note and S2.
I also noticed 2 days ago that every time i connect my phone to the computer and usb debugging mode is on after i disconnect the drives from the computer and then press disconnect from my phone the phone turns off. I did a hard reset hoping it would solve the problem and also formatted my external sd card to fat 32 but still no solution. I have installed kies on my laptop and it identifies the note successfully. Why does the note keep turning off when I disconnect it from my laptop or computer
I really need to solve this as I depend on listening to music in my car using the usb cable as listening to the music directly from the note via 3.5mm cable is really bad on my stereo compared to using the note as storage card.
I was so put down when I compared the same song being played from xperia play with the gnote using poweramp with the same settings, as the sound coming from the xperia play was good compared to the note which was awful. In this comparison both phones where connected via 3.5mm cable to the car stereo, so I have no choice now to only listen to music using the note as a storage card by connecting it to the car stereo via usb cable
this is when I miss the iphone when everything works out of the box, and I don't have to struggle like this
Please help me in solving this as its driving me crazy
This a rather specific issue, but none of the forums for my car were able to give me an answer. I drive a 2013 Hyundai Sonata GLS.
So I just recently switched from iPhone to Android, and I have been having a **** of a time getting the phone to connect to the car via the USB port in my 2013 GLS. With my iPhone, it was as simple as plug n play...not so much with the Android (it's a Verizon LG G2, for what it's worth), as every time I plug in the USB cable, I get "Connection Error" on the screen, and then it just switches back to whatever audio mode I was in before.
I know the USB port actually says "iPod" underneath it specifically, but the owner's manual vaguely hints at a universal USB music mode...I've gone through the menus and tinkered with some of the options, but am unable to find a solution. I really do not want to use Bluetooth. I will buy a car charger and aux cable and just have two connections if need be, but I gotta believe there's a way to have a non-iOS device hooked up through the USB port and be able to play music through it. I don't even need metadata to show up on the screen, just a simple connection would do it!
I am running AOKP 4.4.2. This issue persists even with MTP USB mode activated.
Purchased this HU:
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...747116176.html
So far it works great. I really like it and its a huge improvement over my first 4.4.4 HU as I can use the ENTIRE 16 GB for storage.
Unfortunately even still I am running into one problem. I cannot get any USB HUB I plug into it to become detected. If I plug a USB Flash Drive DIRECTLY into the USB plug of the Head Unit, it becomes detected and works right away. If I plug it in behind ANY USB Hub, the unit does not see the flash drive. It also does not see the USB HUB. What could be going wrong and is there anything I can do to fix it? My older Android 4.4 unit could use the same USB HUB right before I de-installed it so I know the HUB's are still functional.
maybe not enough power. Can you try a powered hub?
I'll try this, Something weird happens. When I turn the car off and reboot the radio by turning the car back on, the USB hub will be seen as long as it was plugged in when I turned the car off. If not, it wont work. Also it will only see 1 flash drive instead of 2. What gives?
Need4Camaro said:
I'll try this, Something weird happens. When I turn the car off and reboot the radio by turning the car back on, the USB hub will be seen as long as it was plugged in when I turned the car off. If not, it wont work. Also it will only see 1 flash drive instead of 2. What gives?
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That really sounds like a power supply issue. If the head unit can find the hub *ever*, then it means it has the needed driver for it.
doitright said:
That really sounds like a power supply issue. If the head unit can find the hub *ever*, then it means it has the needed driver for it.
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So I tested by powering my USB Hub to an AC Outlet charged by an wall in my garage with an extension cable and made sure the USB Hub lit up before I turned my car / stereo on so I verified it was receiving power but unfortunately this did not help at all. It made no difference.
What seems to be happening more specifically now is this.
When I plug USB Flash Drives behind a USB HUB, only ONE Flash Drive gets detected, the rest do not. And by that I cannot even mount them as they are not listed in storage, only USB 1. Now USB 1 does not ever take a single specific flash drive, it is random. Sometimes when I crank it, it will be one flash drive, other times it will take another flash drive, but always listed as USB 1. Other devices such as my mouse and keyboard behind my USB Hub are working no issues.
What else could be the problem?
Need4Camaro said:
So I tested by powering my USB Hub to an AC Outlet charged by an wall in my garage with an extension cable and made sure the USB Hub lit up before I turned my car / stereo on so I verified it was receiving power but unfortunately this did not help at all. It made no difference.
What seems to be happening more specifically now is this.
When I plug USB Flash Drives behind a USB HUB, only ONE Flash Drive gets detected, the rest do not. And by that I cannot even mount them as they are not listed in storage, only USB 1. Now USB 1 does not ever take a single specific flash drive, it is random. Sometimes when I crank it, it will be one flash drive, other times it will take another flash drive, but always listed as USB 1. Other devices such as my mouse and keyboard behind my USB Hub are working no issues.
What else could be the problem?
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Well that's not a driver issue at all. That's an issue with the way Android (read: chinese butchered Android) picks and mounts a USB disk. They are actually *ALL* working, from a driver point of view.
doitright said:
Well that's not a driver issue at all. That's an issue with the way Android (read: chinese butchered Android) picks and mounts a USB disk. They are actually *ALL* working, from a driver point of view.
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I see. So it's not mounting properly. Is there anything I can do about this? I would like to be able to use more than 1 USB storage device at a time.
Need4Camaro said:
I see. So it's not mounting properly. Is there anything I can do about this? I would like to be able to use more than 1 USB storage device at a time.
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Mount them manually from the commandline.
doitright said:
Mount them manually from the commandline.
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Will that require root? Also what is the command to mount them?
Need4Camaro said:
Will that require root? Also what is the command to mount them?
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Root yes.
Command to mount.... "mount".